Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of over 150 inscriptions and epitaphs transcribed from monuments sculpted by Joseph Nollekens. The epitaphs include those of notables such as William Hogarth; Oliver Goldsmith; Edward Hugh Boscawen, eldest son
Description:
Index at end of manuscript. and Parchment binding.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 --Death and burial, Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774 --Death and burial, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 --Death and burial, Nollekens, Joseph, 1737-1823 --Death and burial, and Pitt, William,
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder P.B. I / 23 - 69.
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
Autograph manuscript of the ballad Johnie Blunt by Robert Burns, undated, written on the verso of an address leaf that had been mailed to Burns at his office in Dumfries. It was bound with two autograph letters, signed, to Henry Sage from Bernard Quaritch regarding the ballad's authenticity and a typescript transcription of one letter with an invoice. The letters are dated 1900 August 3 and September 4 and the transcript and invoice are dated 1900 September 4.
Description:
Accompanying letters not digitized., Gift of Cornelia Cogswell Sage, 1955., In binding by Riviere and Son., and Robert Burns, Scottish poet and lyricist. He was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland on January 25, 1759 and died in Dumfries, Scotland on July 21, 1796.
Subject (Name):
Burns, Robert,--1759-1796, Quaritch, Bernard,--1819-1899, Riviere & Son, and Sage, Henry M.--1868-1933
Subject (Topic):
Poets, Scottish--18th century and Scottish poetry--18th century
Holograph manuscript journal, with corrections and revisions, illustrated with drawings and maps in watercolors and in pen and ink. Volume one describes Olmsted's experiences as a passenger on the whaler North America during a voyage from New London, Connecticut, to Honolulu. Volume two continues his account of his stay in Honolulu and describes his return voyage, with several missionaries, to New York on the cargo vessel Flora. Accompanying volume two are six additional sheets written in holograph. The journal, revised and with new illustrations, was published as Incidents of a Whaling Voyage (New York: D. Appleton, 1841).
Alternative Title:
Incidents of a whaling voyage.
Description:
Title written as: Journal of a Voyage Around Cape Horn, 1840.
Subject (Geographic):
Hawaii--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Flora (Barque : New York) and North America (Whaler : New London, Conn.)
Holograph manuscript journal, with corrections and revisions, illustrated with drawings and maps in watercolors and in pen and ink. Volume one describes Olmsted's experiences as a passenger on the whaler North America during a voyage from New London, Connecticut, to Honolulu. Volume two continues his account of his stay in Honolulu and describes his return voyage, with several missionaries, to New York on the cargo vessel Flora. Accompanying volume two are six additional sheets written in holograph. The journal, revised and with new illustrations, was published as Incidents of a Whaling Voyage (New York: D. Appleton, 1841).
Alternative Title:
Incidents of a whaling voyage.
Description:
Title written as: Journal of a Voyage Around Cape Horn, 1840.
Subject (Geographic):
Hawaii--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Flora (Barque : New York) and North America (Whaler : New London, Conn.)
The Walter O. Evans Collection of James Baldwin is comprised of a typescript draft of Baldwin's Another Country (New York: Dial Pub., 1962) and correspondence sent from Baldwin to Mary Garin-Painter, David Adams Leeming, and Eugene Lerner dating from 1953 to 1987. In his letters Baldwin discusses his writing projects and personal life (ranging from his relationships to his experience living abroad in France and Turkey). Baldwin also reflects on his experience at the MacDowell Colony where he was in residence while working on his novel Giovanni's Room. The correspondence constitutes a window into Baldwin's creative process and life during this period.
Description:
Captions devised by cataloger. Letters dated using postage marks on accompanying envelopes. and Purchased from Walter O. and Linda Evans on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund and the Sinclair Lewis Fund, 2013.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--Race relations
Subject (Name):
Leeming, David Adams, 1937-
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives, African American authors--France--Paris., African American civil rights workers, African Americans--Civil rights--20th century., American literature--France--Paris., Americans--Turkey--Istanbul--Intellectual life., Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Turkey--Istanbul., Expatriate artists--France--Paris, and LGBTQ resource
Holograph manuscript, with corrections and a table of contents, providing an account of Christian missionarary work among the Iroquois, Cherokees, California Indians, Eskimo, Wyandots, Objibwas and other American Indians. Includes sections on Hans Egede's work among Greenland's Eskimo population, the efforts of Presbyterians in Alaska, and the Franciscan's California missions. Includes an incomplete chapter about Richard Henry Pratt and the schools he established in St. Augustine, Florida, Virginia, and Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Description:
Margaret Winslow authored numerous young adult novels between 1875 and 1892 while living in Boston, Massachusetts and Saugerties, New York. She also published promotional stories about the American women's gospel temperance movement and the YMCA. and Purchased from Carmen D. Valentino on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2002.
Subject (Name):
Egede, Hans,--1686-1758, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.), Pratt, Richard Henry,--1840-1924, and United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians--Missions, Cree Indians--Missions, Eskimos--Missions--Greenland, Franciscans--California, Indians of North America--Missions, Indians of North America--Missions--California, Indians of North America--Missions--Northwest Territories, Iroquois Indians--Missions, Ojibwa Indians--Missions, Presbyterians--Missions--Alaska, and Wyandot Indians--Missions
Autograph manuscript treatise in two parts, containing definitions and problems in mathematics. The first part, dated 1708, concerns arithmetic operations. The second part, dated 1710, concerns geometry and trigonometry, with sections on applications in construction trades and astronomy and with extensive sections on navigation. Sections are illustrated with ink drawings and geometric diagrams. Several linear scales and volvelles are sewn in.
Description:
Chiefly in English; explanations in part one are in Latin, some with English translations.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy --Early works to 1800 and Mathematics --Early works to 1800